Brookes (ship) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Brookes print was an image widely used by campaigners for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. First designed in Plymouth

Plymouth

Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...

, UK, in 1788 by the Plymouth Chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition

Abolitionism

Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery.In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and set slaves free. At the behest of Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas who was shocked at the treatment of natives in the New World, Spain enacted the first...

of the Slave Trade